Classics audiobooks

The Adventures of Sally

By: P. G. Wodehouse

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 7 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

Pretty, impecunious Sally Nicholas never dreamed a fortune could prove a disadvantage, until she becomes an heiress and watches in bewilderment as her orderly existence goes haywire. Coping first with her brother’s wild theatrical ambitions, then with the defection of her fiancé and his immediate replacement by a much more appropriate but... Read more

Romola

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 21 hours 53 minutes

Abridged: No

"There is no book of mine about which I more thoroughly feel that I swear by every sentence as having been written with my best blood." Thus wrote George Eliot about Romola, the book which is central in her career as a novelist and amongst her most colorful, fluent, and persuasive works. Set in Florence in 1492, a time of great political and... Read more

Jo’s Boys

By: Louisa May Alcott

Narrated by: C. M. Hébert

Length: 9 hours 17 minutes

Abridged: No

This treasured classic by one of America's best-loved writers concludes the adventures and misadventures of the March family first introduced in Little Women and continued in Little Men. Jo's Boys is entertaining, surprising, and an overall joy to listen to.Set ten years after Little Men, Jo's Boys revisits the one-time members of that... Read more

The Glimpses of the Moon

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 8 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Set in New York in the 1920s, The Glimpses of the Moon details the romantic misadventures of Nick Lansing and Susy Branch, two high-society hangers-on with the right connections but a lack of funds. To maintain their status, they decide to marry and spend a year or so sponging off their wealthy friends, honeymooning in their mansions and villas.... Read more

Beau Geste

By: P. C. Wren

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 13 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

A shot rang out. The Arabs surged forward under a savage fusillade of heavy fire. As they advanced, Geste rushed up and down his side of the roof, shooting constantly to trick the Arabs into believing the fort was heavily manned. They couldn’t be allowed to learn the grave truth—that of all those hard-bitten veterans who had yelled their... Read more

Trilby

By: George du Maurier

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 10 hours 26 minutes

Abridged: No

Trilby opens in the Latin Quarter of nineteenth-century Paris, where Trilby O'Ferrall is working as an artist's model. Her grace and ingenuous charm make a poignant contrast to the cruel magnetism of Svengali, under whose spell she falls. Using hypnotic powers, Svengali shapes her into a virtuoso singer—Europe's most captivating soprano—but her... Read more

Madame de Treymes and Two Novellas

By: Edith Wharton

Narrated by: Anna Fields

Length: 7 hours 59 minutes

Abridged: No

Madame de Treymes follows the fortunes of two innocents abroad: Fanny Frisbee of New York, unhappily married to the dissolute Marquis de Malrive, scion of a great house of the Faubourg St. Germain; and John Durham, her childhood friend, who arrives in Paris intent on persuading Fanny to divorce her husband and marry him instead. A scintillating... Read more

The Pilgrim’s Progress

By: John Bunyan

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 9 hours 21 minutes

Abridged: No

Next to the Bible, The Pilgrim’s Progress has probably been more widely read than any other book in the English language, and rightfully so. It is considered by many critics to be the greatest allegory in any language. And to think that it was written by a jailed tinker who received very little formal education.This classic allegory tells of a... Read more

Twenty Years After

By: Alexandre Dumas

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 27 hours 55 minutes

Abridged: No

Originally published in 1845 as a sequel to The Three Musketeers, Twenty Years After is a supreme creation of suspense and heroic adventure.Two decades have passed since the three musketeers triumphed over Cardinal Richelieu and Milady. Time has weakened their resolve and dispersed their loyalties. But treasons and stratagems still cry out for... Read more

Daniel Deronda

By: George Eliot

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 30 hours 7 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the masterpieces of English literature, Daniel Deronda tells the intertwined stories of two different characters as they each come to discover of the truth of their natures.Gwendolen Harleth is the high-spirited beauty of an impoverished upper-class family. In order to restore their fortunes, she unwittingly traps herself in an oppressive... Read more

The Secret Adversary

By: Agatha Christie

Narrated by: Nadia May

Length: 7 hours 48 minutes

Abridged: No

Just after World War I, Tommy Beresford and Tuppence Cowley are desperately short of money.With a shortage of job opportunities, they form a partnership, hiring themselves out as “young adventurers, willing to do anything, go anywhere.” In their first dangerous assignment, they must use all their ingenuity to save not only their own lives but... Read more

Jacob’s Room

By: Virginia Woolf

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 6 hours 2 minutes

Abridged: No

This impressionistic novel by Virginia Woolf marks the author’s first move toward the experimentation for which she would later become recognized. Through a montage of passing images, conversations, and stream-of-consciousness monologues, it tells the story of Jacob Flanders, an idealistic and sensitive young man attempting to reconcile his love... Read more

Dracula

By: Bram Stoker

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 14 hours 32 minutes

Abridged: No

This blood-curdling tale of thirsty vampires continues to hold audiences spellbound more than a century after its publication.Summoned to assist with legal matters regarding a real estate transaction, young Englishman Jonathan Harker journeys to the dismal, dreary castle of Count Dracula in Transylvania. The fledgling solicitor is completely... Read more

Not George Washington

By: P. G. Wodehouse & Herbert Westbrook

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 5 hours 4 minutes

Abridged: No

This rollicking semi-autobiographical novel weaves a tale of Wodehouse’s early days as a writer, romance gone awry, and the colorful characters he encountered.James Orlebar Cloyster, in order to marry his true love, embarks on a scheme of such clever deception that he very nearly manages to ruin both his romance and his career.Told from multiple... Read more

Crome Yellow

By: Aldous Huxley

Narrated by: Simon Vance

Length: 5 hours 56 minutes

Abridged: No

One of the greatest prose writers and social commentators of the twentieth century, Aldous Huxley here introduces us to a delightfully cynical, comic, and severe group of artists and intellectuals engaged in the most freethinking and modern kind of talk imaginable. Poetry, occultism, ancestral history, and Italian primitive painting are just a... Read more

One of Ours

By: Willa Cather

Narrated by: Kristen Underwood

Length: 14 hours 19 minutes

Abridged: No

Willa Cather’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel tells of the making of a young American soldier.Claude Wheeler, the sensitive, aspiring protagonist, resembles the youngest son of a peculiarly American fairy tale. His fortune is ready-made for him, but he refuses to settle for it. Alienated from his crass father and pious mother, all but rejected by... Read more

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall

By: Anne Brontë

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson & Wanda McCaddon

Length: 15 hours 41 minutes

Abridged: No

Like her sisters Emily and Charlotte, Anne Brontë published under a male pseudonym, yet still this novel was scorned by many for its exposure of the abusive male chauvinism that was concealed, like all things sexual, during the Victorian Era.Just as Anne had to use a male pseudonym in order to publish, Helen Graham, the novel’s protagonist and a... Read more

Within the Tides

By: Joseph Conrad

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 5 hours 43 minutes

Abridged: No

The four stories contained in Within the Tides are linked by Conrad’s treatment of loyalty and betrayal. They range in setting from the Far East to eighteenth-century Spain to England. The tone shifts from the tragic inevitability of “The Planter of Malata” and the pathos of “Because of the Dollars” to the gothic atmosphere of “The Inn of the... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 1

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 15 hours 8 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

The Castle

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 10 hours 36 minutes

Abridged: No

This edition of Kafka's terrifying and comic masterpiece is the product of an international team of experts who used Kafka's original text and notes to render this story as close to the author's vision as possible. Kafka's final novel tells the haunting tale of a man's relentless struggle with authority in order to gain entrance to the... Read more

Le Morte d’Arthur, Vol. 2

By: Sir Thomas Malory

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 17 hours 40 minutes

Abridged: No

This monumental work made the Arthurian cycle available for the first time in English. Malory took a body of legends from Celtic folklore that had been adapted into French literature, gave them an English perspective, and produced a work which ever since has had tremendous influence upon literature.The story begins with King Uther Pendragon’s... Read more

Queen Lucia

By: E. F. Benson

Narrated by: Wanda McCaddon

Length: 8 hours 35 minutes

Abridged: No

England between the wars was a paradise of calm and leisure for the very, very rich. Into this enclave is born Mrs. Emmeline Lucas—La Lucia, as she is known—a woman determined to lead a life quite different from the subdued formality of her class.With her cohort, Georgie Pillson, and her husband, Peppino, Lucia upends the greats of high society:... Read more

Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

By: Jules Verne

Narrated by: Frederick Davidson

Length: 11 hours 18 minutes

Abridged: No

Follow along on this fantastic voyage as Professor Arronax, Ned, and Beth set out to capture a terrifying sea monster—before it captures them."The year 1866 was signalised by a remarkable incident, a mysterious and inexplicable phenomenon, which doubtless no one has yet forgotten…For some time past, vessels had been met by 'an enormous thing,' a... Read more

The Trial

By: Franz Kafka

Narrated by: Geoffrey Howard

Length: 7 hours 46 minutes

Abridged: No

Josef K. is an employee at a bank, an Everyman without any particular qualities or ambitions. His inconsequence makes doubly strange his “arrest” by an officer of the court, made with no formal charges or explanation. Disoriented and consumed with guilt for a “crime” he does not understand, Josef K. must justify his life to a “court” with which... Read more